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Had a great dinner last night at Wasabi Bistro with a crowd of fellow MBA new hires at my company, including one who lives down the hill from us and used to work at Jack Straw Productions. Also met some folks who are working at Amazon. I tried geoduck sushi–which was sadly somewhat tasteless and [...]

I’ve had a few conversations about Sloan recently. I got my first call as an alum from an entering student two weeks ago. George and Jay continue to blog. George has become pretty prolific in spite of slipping away to Cape Cod every weekend.
Jay’s been quieter, for good reason: he’s been learning CSS and [...]

Anna Pavlova: Adjustment Costs, Learning-by-Doing, and Technology Adoption under Uncertainty. New paper by one of the “young turks” in financial research at the MIT Sloan School about the effects of recession and organizational capability on technology adoption. Basically, the model shows that, under uncertainty, the rate of adoption of technology is critically dependent on capital [...]

I narrowed the problem with iTunes2Manila down last night. It’s got to be in the code that handles creating and posting the news item to Manila; the sister script (iTunes2TextEdit) works fine putting the same information into a TextEdit document, so the disappearance of the track information must be happening somewhere else.
I haven’t made much [...]

It’s been a fairly turbulent seven days. I worked hard for about two months on a strategy project only to have it taken away, and am pretty much starting from scratch trying to learn about a new market, product suite, and set of job skills. I have regained a little balance over the past few [...]

I was at an all day company meeting and couldn’t update the blog. Priority tonight: why doesn’t iTunes2Manila work???

CUPS: MacNN has a tutorial on enabling CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) in Jaguar. After reading the tutorial, I would guess it wasn’t implemented by default because the UI sounds sketchy (printer configuration through a web interface on port 631 rather than through Print Center, for instance). The interesting thing is that it can [...]

The Seattle International Beer Festival was a good time but smaller than I expected. The main focus is international beers, meaning that the biggest representation is from importers rather than local brewers working in international styles (although there were some good examples). Brewery reps weren’t on hand either. But I did meet the ops manager [...]

I was all fired up to write how I couldn’t connect to my Radio desktop news aggregator under Mac OS X 10.2. Which was true on Friday, but no longer true today for some reason. Maybe Manila Envelope will work today too?

So Manila Envelope doesn’t appear to work as is under Mac OS X 10.2. In fact, even rebuilding it doesn’t do the trick. Never fear, I’m working on it, but I can’t figure out what the hell is wrong…

Lisa weeded this morning and ripped up a dead tree while I cleaned the house and cleaned up the garage. Nice having a space where you can just pound a nail into the wall or screw in a hook, hang something up, and youíre done.
Weíre going to head into town to pick up some Fiano [...]

Yes, it’s a slow day at the office. But it’s a faster day on Mac OS X. Jaguar absolutely launches faster, multitasks better, and seems generally cleaner.
One or two complaints:

While the Help engine launches much faster, it takes longer to retrieve help for an individual application the first time; second time is much faster. [...]

..but “it’s working! It’s working!!!!”
After verifying the hard disk repairs, I removed one big chunk of packaged software that I wasn’t using and had a CD for reinstall if I needed. I was concerned about not having enough free disk space to continue the install. Then I put the upgrade disk in, switched my boot [...]

The longer I’m a Mac user, the more I’m convinced that disk repair utilities are like money. The more of them you have, the better.
As reported previously, during the install of Mac OS X 10.2 my OS X partition went blooey. I ran Disk First Aid repair three times, which still left three reported errors: [...]